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Immunogenicity of mumps virus vaccine candidates matching circulating genotypes in the United States and China.
Vaccine - 13 Jul 2017
Zengel James, Phan Shannon I, Pickar Adrian, Xu Pei, He Biao
Abstract excerpt
Mumps virus (MuV) causes acute infection in humans with characteristic swelling of the parotid gland. While vaccination has greatly reduced the incidence of MuV infection, there have been multiple large outbreaks of mumps virus (MuV) in highly vaccinated populations. The most common vaccine strain, Jeryl Lynn, belongs to genotype A, which is no longer a circulating genotype. We have developed two vaccine...
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